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NH #371: Nuclear Trainwreck: Radwaste Transport Dangers Exposed! – Donna Gilmore of San Onofre Safety Aug 02, 2018

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Nuclear Trainwreck? – San Onofre high level radioactive wastelurks just above and behind Pacific Ocean high tide mark –and proposed rail transport is a “mobile Chernobyl” disaster just waiting to happen. This Week’s Featured Interview: “Nuclear trainwreck” – Let’s hope that’s a metaphor, not a future reality! Donna Gilmore is founder and head of San...

NH #370: Congress Meets Hard Nuclear Decommissioning Truths – SPECIAL: DC Briefing, Education/Lobbying w/Kevin Kamps, Dave Kraft, Manna Jo Greene Jul 25, 2018

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Congress briefing pros Kevin Kamps (l) of Beyond Nuclear andIan Zabarte of the Western Shoshone tribelet DC insiders know a genuine nuclear truth.Photo by Galen Tromble SPECIAL REPORT:Two Days with Congress: DC Briefing, Education/Lobbying on Decommissioning Nuclear Power Plants This Week’s Featured Interviews: Kevin Kamps is the Nuclear Waste Specialist for Beyond Nuclear, and when...

NH #369: Nuclear Power Plays: Colorado “Wildlife Refuge” at Plutonium-Contaminated Superfund Site, Gene Stone: San Onofre Real-Time Radiation Monitoring Possible! Jul 19, 2018

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Nuclear Power Play: Credentialed journalist Sam Husseini (The Nation)holding so-called “malicious item”that got him forcibly ejected from Putin/Trump Helsinki press conference This Week’s Featured Interviews: Gene Stone, founder of Residents Organized for a Safe Environment, talks about a breakthrough in creating a real-time, inexpensive, publicly accessible radiation monitoring system for the “spent” fuel canisters at...

NH #368: FALLOUT: Int’l Nuclear Disasters, Lies & Secrecy with Author Fred Pearce Jul 12, 2018

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FALLOUT: Disasters, Lies and the Nuclear Age by Fred Pearceincludes, of course, Chernobyl, pictured here immediately after the disaster began. This Week’s Featured Interview: Fred Pearce is an English journalist based in London. He is a science writer, reporting on the environment, popular science, and development issues from 64 countries over the past 20 years,...

NH #367: New Mexico Radioactive Battleground over Nuke Dump: Sierra Club’s John Buchser Jul 05, 2018

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New Mexico’s other nuclear problems include the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant,or WIPP site near Carlsbad, NM (pictured), where a 55 gallon drum of stored waste from Los Alamos National Laboratories exploded on Valentine’s Day, 2014. It cost taxpayers more than $2 billion and severely limits the ability to store radioactive nuclear weapons manufacturing waste there....

NH #362: Chernobyl Dogs, Radiation Genetics, Mutations: Evolutionary Biologist Dr. Timothy Mousseau May 30, 2018

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Chernobyl – Dr. Timothy Mousseau heads research into plant, insect, bird and small mammal mutations This Week’s SPECIAL Featured Interview: Dr. Timothy Mousseau is an evolutionary biologist best known for his research on-the-ground studying the effects of radiation on animals and plant life around Chernobyl and Fukushima. He has been a faculty member of the...

NH #361: Radiation NEVER “Good for You” – Dr. Ian Fairlie Rips “hormesis” Lies + Leona Morgan at NRC NM Meetings: Citizens say NO! to Proposed Holtec Radioactive Waste Dump May 23, 2018

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Radiation Dump in NM or West Texas? No way! Leona Morgan of Diné No Nukes and Haul No!Reports on NRC Public Scoping Meeting on Proposed Holtec “interim” High Level Radioactive Waste Dump This Week’s Featured Interview: Dr. Ian Fairlie has studied radiation and radioactivity since the Chernobyl accident in 1986; received his doctorate from Princeton...

NH #360: Yucca Mountain YUCK! + NRC to Geriatric Nukes: “Life After 60? OK!” + New Trinity Site/Rocky Flats Docu OFF COUNTRY May 16, 2018

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Marker at the Trinity site, where the world’s first nuclear explosion took place. This Week’s Featured Interview: Filmmakers Taylor Dunne and Eric Stewart on their new documentary-in-progress, OFF COUNTRY, which examines lives impacted on-the-ground after the Trinity test, the first nuclear explosion in the world, and at Rocky Flats, the plutonium contaminated former nuclear weapons...

NH #359: Canada Nuclear Waste Dump Upstream of Montreal’s Drinking Water? Dr. Gordon Edwards May 10, 2018

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Canada Nuclear Waste Dump in Chalk River, Ontario –“Mobile Chernobyl” highway route waste would take from Los Alamos National Labs This Week’s Featured Interview: Dr. Gordon Edwards is president of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility and one of that country’s best known independent experts on nuclear technology. He has worked with the Canadian government,...

NH #358: Pilgrim Nuclear Dangers Mounting for Boston, New England – Diane Turco May 03, 2018

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Pilgrim Nuclear public hearing, Diane TurcoPhoto credit: M. Scott Brauer This Week’s Featured Interview: Diane Turco, Executive Director of Cape Downwinders, a group dedicated to the permanent closure of the Pilgrim nuclear power reactor in Plymouth, Massachusetts, updates us on the problems and dangers at that facility in just the first four months of 2018....

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